Acts such as Article 3 are drawing inspiration from their culture and meeting a big appetite for Indigenous-focused club nights
“W
e both live in maybe the most impractical place if you want to be a successful DJ,” laughs Alice Marie Jektevik, one half of Article 3, a Sámi female DJ collective. Jektevik, 36, and her collaborator, Petra Laiti, 30, reside in a rural village in the far north-east of Norway.
But living in Sápmi – the region across northern parts of Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia traditionally lived in by Sámi people – has proven to be central to their success, providing the inspiration for much of their work.
Laiti says a discussion during a typical coffee meetup between the two goes from mixing and DJ gear to fishing, hunting and traditional handicrafts, and back to planning the visuals for a gig. “Everything is inspiring another area,” she says. “It is very holistic in that sense.”
